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Tavo Montanez
Meet Tavo Montañez – one of Mexico’s leading professional illustrators. From playful characters to accurate portraits and on to cerebral book jacket artwork, Tavo is flexible in his style, agile with his ideas, and always delivers high quality imagery. He creates illustrations that cut through all the noise of today’s media – whether online or in print.
Based in Aguascalientes in central Mexico, Tavo has always harboured a passion for image making. As a child he poured over encyclopaedias, illustrated books, movie posters, book jackets and more – drawing, drawing and drawing. Not realising illustration was an option, he trained in graphic design but kept drawing in his free time, built up a client base and today he works for household brands in editorial, sports, entertainment, educational publishing, footwear and more.
Clients love the diversity of ideas Tavo puts forward at the start of a project, and his responsiveness to feedback during the creative process. He’s an artist who always sees positive ways forward to ensure his clients get what they’re looking for.
Influences include music from Smashing Pumpkins to Hans Zimmer; artists such as Egon Shiele, HR Giger and Ernesto García Cabral; and weird botanical forms like mushrooms, wood textures, insects, seeds and crustaceans.
